Word Meanings - IDEO-MOTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An ideo-motor movement.
Related words: (words related to IDEO-MOTION)
- MOTOR; MOTORY; MOTORIAL
Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; - - applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion. - MOTOR GENERATOR
The combination consisting of a generator and a driving motor mechanically connected, usually on a common bedplate and with the two shafts directly coupled or combined into a single shaft. - MOTORIZE
To substitute motor-driven vehicles, or automobiles, for the horses and horse-drawn vehicles of . - -Mo`tor*i*za"tion , n. - MOTOR
A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power. - MOTOR CAR; MOTORCAR
1. An automobile, locomobile, or locomotive designed to run and be steered on a street or roadway; esp., an automobile specially designed for passengers. - MOTOR-DRIVEN
Driven or actuated by a motor, esp. by an individual electric motor. An electric motor forms an integral part of many machine tools in numerous modern machine shops. - MOTORPATHY
Kinesiatrics. - MOTOR CYCLE; MOTORCYCLE
A bicycle having a motor attached so as to be self-propelled. In Great Britain the term motor cycle is treated by statute (3 Ed VII. c. 36) as limited to motor cars designed to travel on not more than three wheels, and weighing unladen (that is, - MOTORING
Act or recreation of riding in or driving a motor car or automobile. - MOVEMENT
A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement , an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement - MOTORPATHIC
Of or pertaining to motorpathy. - MOTORMAN
A man who controls a motor. - RHEOMOTOR
Any apparatus by which an electrical current is originated. - PHONOMOTOR
An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body. - MAGNETOMOTOR
A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena. - SERVO-MOTOR
A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve - CALORIMOTOR
A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects. - SERIES MOTOR
A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit. - VASOMOTOR
Causing movement in the walls of vessels; as, the vasomotor mechanisms; the vasomotor nerves, a system of nerves distributed over the muscular coats of the blood vessels. Vasomotor center, the chief dominating or general center which supplies all - INCITO-MOTORY
Incitomotor. - TELEMOTOR
A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern. - DEPRESSOMOTOR
Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. -- n. - ELECTROMOTOR
A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity. - MANUMOTOR
A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it. - INDUCTION MOTOR
A type of alternating-current motor comprising two wound members, one stationary, called the stator, and the other rotating, called the rotor, these two members corresponding to a certain extent to the field and armature of a direct-current motor. - LOCOMOTOR
Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion. Locomotor ataxia, or Progressive locomotor ataxy , a disease of the spinal cord characterized by peculiar disturbances of gait, and difficulty in coördinating voluntary movements. - PSYCHO-MOTOR
Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.